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Title Obligations and omissions : Canada's ambiguous actions on gender equality / edited by Rebecca Tiessen and Stephen Baranyi.

Publication Info. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (309 pages).
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Series McGill-Queen's studies in gender, sexuality, and social justice in the Global South ; 1
McGill-Queen's studies in gender, sexuality, and social justice in the global south ; 1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Canada's ambiguous actions on gender equality -- 1. Did changes in official language lead to spending shifts? -- 2. Missed oppotunity: a discursive analysis of Canada's committments to maternal health under the Muskoka Initiative -- 3. Queer Canada? The Harper government and international lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex rights -- 4. Criminals or victims? An analysis of the Harper Conservatives' efforts on the sex trade and human trafficking -- 5. Lost without way-finders? Disability, gender, and Canadian foreign and development policy -- 6 Gold 'n' girls: why Canada weds gender equality with mining capitalism in Burkina Faso -- 7. Canada, women, and artisanal mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo -- 8. Discourse and whole-of-government: the instrumentalization of gender in the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team -- 9. The gendered politics of deceit in Egypt: the instrumentalization of women's rights for an international geostrategic agenda -- 10. The erasure of gender in Canada-Haiti cooperation? -- 11. Not high on our radar? The Harper government and missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada -- Conclusions: looking back and moving forward.
Summary "On issues pertaining to women and girls, Stephen Harper's federal government positioned Canada as a 'beacon of light' in the world. Programs were developed in relation to women's maternal health and the protection of the girl child, but other actions point to an ambiguous and even contradictory approach that failed to address gender inequality. In Obligations and Omissions, contributors examine Canada's equivocal -- and diminished -- role in working toward gender equality in the period between 2006 and 2015. Using a critical feminist lens to document, analyze, and challenge Canada's relations with the Global South, chapters explore the extent to which matters of gender equality have been erased or exploited under the Harper government and the factors that explain these policy shifts. While the contributors document successes in Canada's approach to some issues facing women and girls around the world, they also show many problems with the ways that agenda was framed and implemented under the Conservative government. Drawing on rich theoretical investigation, empirical research, and discourse analysis, Obligations and Omissions reveals a complex picture of diverse practices, underscoring the implications of these actions for communities in the Global South, for Canada's image in the international community, and for future governments in the pursuit of a renewed gender equality strategy"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Women's rights -- Government policy -- Developing countries.
Women's rights -- Government policy.
Developing countries.
Women's rights.
Women's rights -- Developing countries -- International cooperation.
International cooperation.
Sex discrimination against women -- Government policy -- Developing countries.
Sex discrimination against women -- Government policy.
Sex discrimination against women.
Sex discrimination against women -- Developing countries.
Canada -- Foreign relations -- Developing countries.
Canada.
International relations.
Developing countries -- Foreign relations -- Canada.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Developing countries.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Women -- Government policy -- Developing countries.
Women -- Government policy.
Women.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Added Author Tiessen, Rebecca, 1970- editor.
Baranyi, Stephen, 1962- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Obligations and omissions. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017] 0773550232 (OCoLC)964327576
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